1st Edition
Advancing Long-Term Care Policy and Research in China
Introduction: Embracing Challenges for Population Aging in China: Building Scientific Evidence to Inform Long-Term Care Policymaking and Practice
Zhanlian Feng and Bei Wu
Section I. Migration, Filial Piety, and Elder Care Challenges
1. Issues of Elder Care among Migrant Workers in Contemporary Rural China: Filial Piety Redefined from a Foucauldian Perspective
Longtao He, Kate van Heugten, Maria Perez-Y-Perez, and Yongqiang Zheng
2. Existing Datasets to Study the Impact of Internal Migration on Caregiving Arrangements among Older Adults in China
Hanzhang Xu, Yaolin Pei, Matthew E. Dupre, and Bei Wu
Section II. Long-Term Care Users, Workers, and Workforce Challenges
3. Effects of Care Arrangement on the Age of Institutionalization among Community-dwelling Chinese Older Adults
Jing Wang, Qing Yang, and Bei Wu
4. Domestic Helpers as Frontline Workers in Home-Based Long-Term Care in China: Opportunities and Challenges
Jing Wang, Yahui Huang, Yaqing Zhang, Fangqi Wu, and Bei Wu
5. Process and Structure: Service Satisfaction and Recommendation in a Community-based Elderly Meal Service in Shanghai
Lin Chen, Minzhi Ye, and Eva Kahana
Section III. Unmet Needs Across the Care Continuum: Healthcare, Long-Term Care, and End-of-Life Care
6. Unmet Needs and Associated Factors among Community-living Older People with Disability in China: 2005–2014
Yang Cao, Zhanlian Feng, Vincent Mor, and Peng Du
7. Quality of Death among Older Adults in China: The Role of Medical Expenditure and Timely Medical Treatment
Xiuquan Gong, Yaolin Pei, Min Zhang, and Bei Wu
8. Does Welfare Receipt Change Consumption on Health among Older Families? The Case of China
Yalu Zhang and Qin Gao
Section IV. Long-Term Care Financing
9. China’s Ambitious Policy Experiment with Social Long-Term Care Insurance: Promises, Challenges, and Prospects
Zhanlian Feng, Yan Lin, Bei Wu, Xiaowei Zhuang, and Elena Glinskaya
Biography
Zhanlian Feng, PhD, is Senior Researcher in the Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care program at RTI International, USA. He has over 20 years of experience in long-term care and health services research in the United States and internationally. He has published over 100 journal articles, book chapters, commentaries, and reports.
Bei Wu, PhD, Vice Dean for Research and Dean’s Professor in Global Health at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, USA, is an internationally recognized leader in gerontology. She has led numerous NIH-funded studies on oral health, dementia caregiving, and long- term care. A prolific researcher, she also mentors scholars worldwide.
